Tag: hypocrisy
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Bravo Mo Yan! (or the Censorship of hypocrisy…)
Chinese writer Mo Yan winning the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature is making headline news in China, with an overwhelming amount of praise, but also controversy, among internet users. [1] Many people critisize Mo Yan, claiming that he is in favor of censorship as applied by the official Chinese government – e.g. to other Chinese […]
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“Manifest Destiny”, wrong values, correct mottos…
Clothing giant Gap has pulled a controversial T-shirt off its warehouse shelves after outraged consumers lashed out via social media. The simple, dark-blue T-shirt with “MANIFEST DESTINY” printed on it in stark white letters was part of the “Gap x GQ” collection, a joint effort between Gap and GQ Magazine to showcase America’s best new designers. [1] The term which caused […]
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Dawkins, Playboy and how YOU can be “NOT you”…
In a recent interview in Playboy (see here), Dawkins claims: PLAYBOY: Are you concerned that your opponents might fake a deathbed conversion, as creationists have tried to do with Darwin? DAWKINS: What’s slightly more worrying is the Antony Flew effect. Flew was an atheistic British philosopher who had an old-age conversion. It seems he went […]
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Sweden & the Hypocrisy of “neutral” and “good” countries…
From the FOI ballistic missiles factory (where Sweden secretely helped the Saudi dictatorship create a missile factory) to the TeliaSonera scandal [1] (the Skandinavian company helped former USSR countries spy on their citizens – see also Στρατηγική Ιούλιος 2012), from IKEA and the cooperation with Hitler [Allies trading with Hitler] to Lundin Petroleum [2], from total indifference […]
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Modern doctors & the Hypocrisy of health…
Oxford researchers published a research on Lancet which says the NHS should consider giving statins to healthy people, so as to decrease the risk of heart attacks [source 1=”<a” href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18091708″ 2=”target="_blank">BBC” 3=”News</a>” language=”:”][/source]. There you go. It is really weird how many scientism-lovers believe that medicine and technology gives them a better life, while many […]
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